Anyone who collects vintage movie star postcards has undoubtedly come across the Ross Verlag name, a postcard publishing company that existed from the early 1920's through the mid 1940's in Berlin, Germany. On this website, I'll tell some of the company's history, and attempt to create checklists of all the Ross Verlag film star postcards.

Ross Verlag printed real photo postcards of the highest quality, among the finest ever published of movie stars. The company licensed thousands of images from the Hollywood studios; some of those photos may have only been distributed on these postcards. In Germany, movie stars were photographed by the best European glamour studios. Quite possibly, many of these photos were taken just for publication through Ross Verlag.

Most of the records for Ross Verlag were lost, no doubt, in the war, so a thorough research of the company is very difficult. There are still many mysteries.

I have divided this website into several pages, each dealing with a different topic related to the history of Ross Verlag. For instance, the first topic discloses what is known about the founder of the company, Heinrich Ross. To access any of the pages, click on the subject heading, or either of the postcards on each side of the topic.

Thanks to Peter Hughes, Carola Jüllig (Berlin German Historical Museum), Ian Sayer, Titia Harmanni, Alain Carbuccia, Marlene Pilaete, Bob Summerell, Rachel Tanner, Rebecca Isacsson, Richard Minns and Dave Stone for assistance with this information and/or scans. Much appreciation to Sarah Hyams from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum for her kind assistance. Special thanks to Stefan Riebe for his invaluable help in this research early on, as well as for several scans. Grateful appreciation and a huge thanks to Hans Schnepper, Klaus Wunderlich and Klaas Dierks for their continued interest, research and support.

A very extra special thank you to Werner Mohr from Berlin, who has provided me with much additional help for this website, particularly on the numbering scheme of Film Sterne and Ross, and for revealing that "Ross" was an actual person, as well as much more. And Mr. Mohr did this by handwritten letter because he did not have a computer or internet access! I am forever indebted. And a big thank you also to Patrick Kuster who was kind enough to print out some pages and send them to Mr. Mohr and for contacting me about this and sending along my address. It was very much appreciated.